---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT."
description: "Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023. (HD1)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 145"
citation: "Hawaii HB 145 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Expungement Orders", "HCJDC", "Judiciary"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BELATTI", "GARRETT", "GRANDINETTI", "IWAMOTO", "KAHALOA", "KUSCH", "MARTEN", "PERRUSO", "POEPOE", "SOUZA", "TAKAYAMA", "TAKENOUCHI", "TAM", "TARNAS"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-14"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55a785f1-149c-4f40-9f70-c86eab7b21ea"
source_url: "https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=145&year=2025"
source_hash: "89c1a16287f6096067269e0dbd2f1198638d8d7608c2c3b6317047b197572499"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii HB 145 (2025) — RELATING TO EXPUNGEMENT.

Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to transmit all expungement orders to the Judiciary to effectuate the purposes of Act 159, SLH 2023. (HD1)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB145** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB145_.HTM)
2. **HB145_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB145_HD1_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Third Reading. — **18–0** (pass) · upper
- The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- BELATTI — primary (person)
- GARRETT — primary (person)
- GRANDINETTI — primary (person)
- IWAMOTO — primary (person)
- KAHALOA — primary (person)
- KUSCH — primary (person)
- MARTEN — primary (person)
- PERRUSO — primary (person)
- POEPOE — primary (person)
- SOUZA — primary (person)
- TAKAYAMA — primary (person)
- TAKENOUCHI — primary (person)
- TAM — primary (person)
- TARNAS — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-04-11** Act 003, on 04/10/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1103). `became-law`
- **2025-04-11** Act 003, 04/10/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1103). `became-law`
- **2025-03-25** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2025-03-25** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 400).
- **2025-03-25** Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 18; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 7 (Senator(s) Awa, Elefante, Fukunaga, Gabbard, Keohokalole, Lee, C., Richards). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2025-03-24** One Day Notice 03-25-25.
- **2025-03-24** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Reported from JDC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1350) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2025-03-11** The committee(s) on JDC recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in JDC were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Rhoads, Gabbard, Chang, San Buenaventura, Awa; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** The committee(s) on JDC has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-25 9:45AM; Conference Room 016 & Videoconference.
- **2025-03-04** Referred to JDC. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 9). `introduction, receipt`
- **2025-02-27** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2025-02-18** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Alcos, Cochran, Lowen, Poepoe, Ward excused (5).
- **2025-02-18** Reported from JHA (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 796) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and placement on the calendar for Third Reading.
- **2025-01-30** The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Todd, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Hashem. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-24** Bill scheduled to be heard by JHA on Thursday, 01-30-25 2:00PM in House conference room 325 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-01-21** Referred to JHA, referral sheet 1 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-01-14** Prefiled.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55a785f1-149c-4f40-9f70-c86eab7b21ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).